Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited
I don’t comment very often on java performance myth busting articles anymore (I used to do this a lot at slashdot and the javalobby). However, this: Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends,...
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I tried to install some plugins in jEdit, my favourite programming editor (for things other than Java, for that I use eclipse of course). I got some IO errors trying to install some plugins in the...
View ArticleCrypto Crap in Python
I’m looking into doing a little cryptographic stuff in python. Nothing fancy, just some standard stuff. Not for the first time I’m bumping into this brick wall of “batteries included”, the notion that...
View ArticleCouchDB
We did a little exercise at work to come up with a plan to scale to absolutely massive levels. Not an entirely academic problem where I work. One of the options I am (strongly) in favor of is using...
View ArticleGeoKV
As you may have guessed from my previous posts on my new company/project LocalStream and iterables-support, the two topics are related. A lot of the open source work I’ve been doing on GitHub lately...
View ArticleFunctional tests and flakyness
I just stumbled on a nice article that Martin Fowler has had on his website for a few years about non deterministic tests. It’s a good read and it addresses something that I have encountered in...
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